N’compass Increases Utility Computing and Storage Expertise. Data Center Team Grows Through Sun Microsystems Employee Acquisitions in Response to Oracle Buy-Out Speculation.

August 11, 2009, Minneapolis, MN - N’compass Solutions, Inc., a technology solutions company delivering The Power of Strategic IT announced today it’s hiring of two data center experts, thus deepening their commitment to, and depth and breadth in, the data center environment.

“As a Sun Microsystems Principal Partner, we are very involved with Sun’s corporate and local offices,” says Chris Pinc, N’compass Executive Vice President. “When Sun announced their company-wide layoffs as preparation for the Oracle acquisition, we knew there would be a superior talent pool for us to grow our team with – especially in an area which is so critical to IT professionals – data center management.”

Roy Pillay joins N’compass as the Senior Data Center Architect. With over 15 years of experience in IT infrastructure, including: design, implementation and management of services in the data center, Roy provides strong experience in telecommunication, financial, life science, and federal verticals. Roy will focus on building N’compass’ service portfolio around utility computing with emphasis on assessment, standardization, consolidation, virtualization and automation.

John Ruhoff has over 30 years experience in architectural product evangelizing, customer education and support. As an N’compass Sales Engineer, John is responsible for providing technical presales support and consulting services to clients regarding server hardware, networked storage, archiving/tiered storage systems, and enterprise server & storage virtualization technologies. His responsibilities include providing demonstrations of new & emerging technologies to customers and owning technical validation concerns within the sales cycle.

“Roy and John bring N’compass a high level of expertise in critical areas of data center management - utility computing and storage.” Pinc continues. “Corporate data centers are notoriously underutilized, with servers often sitting idle. IT professionals are focused more than ever on better economics; whether through energy savings, lowering their TCO, or outsourcing. With Roy and John joining our data center team, especially with their experience in Sun Microsystems technologies, we are best equipped to exceed our customer’s next generation of data center needs.”

About N'compass Solutions
N'compass is a Minneapolis-based technology consulting company providing The Power of Strategic IT. N'compass helps organizations bridge the gap between technology and business. While businesses IT departments, facilities departments and other business units might share a common goal, their priorities are often different. N'compass understands all perspectives and helps clients achieve their overall business and technology goals. www.ncompass-inc.com